Projects

Technoscience Salon is an open forum for interdisciplinary and playful intellectual exchange on questions of science, technology and biomedicine. The Salon is organized around a monthly theme.

Past Projects

Plant Encounters Workshop Report – Technoscience Research Unit (May 2011)
The Plant Encounters Workshop was a project affiliated with New College and Professor Michelle Murphy’s Technoscience Research Unit. This workshop was animated by an inquiry into interdisciplinary approaches to encountering plants as nonhuman others that problematize our ontologies, politics, methodologies, and narrative frameworks.

Undergraduate Reading Group - MAPPING with FANON (Medicine and Politics).
Co-Organized by Brian Beaton. (2010-2011)

Open Concept Graduate Reading Group Organized by Sarah Tracy and Emily Simmonds. (2010-2011)

Thinking the Life Sciences Reading Group (2009-2010)
A small bi-weekly reading group that is exploring questions of ontology, life and science. Organized by Sarah Tracy.

Biopolitics + Technoscience Series (2006-2007)
An interdisciplinary roundtable and lecture series exploring the multiple and conflicting ways technology, science, and governance transform life itself.

RaceSci Website (1996-2006)
The RaceSci Website was a scholarly forum and database that addressed a longstanding gap in resources for the history of race in science, medicine, and technology.